News - Middle East: Yemen's Shura Council strongly condemned the aggression launched by the Zionist entity on residential neighborhoods in Gaza, leaving dozens of killed and injured.

The Council expressed in a statement its condolences to the Islamic Jihad movement and to all the Palestinian people for the killed of the commander in Al-Quds, Tayseer Al-Jabari, and all the killed who fell during the Israeli raids on Gaza.

"It not been for the silence of the Arab regimes and their complicity with this entity, the suffering of our Arab people in Palestine would not have continued to this day" The statement said.

The Presidency of Parliament affirmed the right of Palestinian people and resistance to respond to the Zionist aggression, calling on all peoples of Arab and Islamic nation to helds the historical responsibility in supporting the Palestinian people.

The Presidency of the Council called on the UN and international community to play its humanitarian and moral role in condemning these crimes and working to stop the intransigence of the Zionist enemy.

"This aggression is a continuation of the crimes committed by the enemy forces and an insistence on their flagrant violation of the rules of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy" The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Earlier on Friday, the Islamic Jihad confirmed that the Israeli enemy assassinated one of its commanders. Tayseer Jabari, a high-ranking commander was killed in airstrike in his home. Israeli media described him as the “successor of Islamic Jihad military chief Baha Abu al Ata”, who was martyred in an Israeli strike in 2019.

Occupation Home Front Command alerted Israeli settlers who live in towns within an 80 km radius of the Gaza Strip, including Tel Aviv, that there is a risk of rocket fire, Israeli media reported.

Islamic Jihad and Hamas Mobilize
Shortly after the Al-Jaabari was pronounced martyred, the Islamic Jihad announced that the Israeli occupation military is launching a war, vowing to confront the new aggression.

Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ziad Nakhale ordered the resistance groups operatives to act in accordance with plans set to confront Israeli aggression, Palestinian media reported.

For its part, The Palestinian Health Ministry said well over 80 people had also been injured in the Israeli attack earlier in the day.

Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhalah said the Israeli enemy must expect a "non-stop" confrontation in the wake of the Friday aggression.

There will be no truce following this attack, the Islamic Jihad official said. All resistance groups must struggle under one flag in this fight, Nakhalah said.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad’s fellow Gaza-based resistance movement, also said the Israeli enemy "committed a new crime" and must "pay its price."

Last May, Gaza’s resistance groups fired around 4,000 rockets during Operation Sword of al-Quds after the Israeli regime initiated its last war against the coastal enclave.

Also on Friday, Palestinians demonstrated in the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, denouncing the Israeli regime’s air raids on Gaza.